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Ex-offenders “neglected” in the workplace due to lack of digital skills, warns Digital Poverty Alliance

Stuart Mitchell

With current reoffending rates on the rise, prison leavers are facing neglect when seeking to reintegrate into society due to insufficient digital skills, according to the Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA). Government statistics reveal that the criminal reoffending rate is currently at 26 per cent, and has increased since 2021. The DPA believes that schemes like Tech4PrisonLeavers would largely decrease reoffending rates by providing ex-offenders with essential skills to make them an asset to society and employers. The DPA highlights a pressing need for all bodies to provide support and training…

Ten outstanding health and wellbeing charities win 2024 GSK IMPACT Awards 

Stuart Mitchell

Ten UK charities have been named as winners of the 2024 GSK IMPACT Awards for their excellent work improving health and wellbeing in their communities.   This year’s awards come at a time when many smaller charities find themselves working in a demanding and challenging environment. Rising costs, falling income and increased demand continues to put charities and their finances under extreme pressure. The cost-of-living crisis is having a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of many local communities, with a record 2.8 million people currently unable to work due to…

National Grid Community Matters Fund opens to help tackle fuel poverty

Stuart Mitchell

Charities and community organisations across the Midlands, South West England, and South Wales are invited to apply for a share of a major support fund set up by National Grid Electricity Distribution to help tackle fuel poverty this winter. Working again in partnership with Localgiving, the National Grid’s Community Matters Fund has already supported more than 900 grassroots organisations since it was launched in 2021 as an urgent response to the cost-of-living crisis. Now National Grid is calling on charities, councils and community groups of all sizes to apply for…

smol partners with The Hygiene Bank to launch Suds in Schools initiative, to help combat hygiene poverty.

Stuart Mitchell

smol has partnered with The Hygiene Bank to launch an initiative that will see the challenger brand install mini laundrettes in schools across the UK so that families experiencing the effects of hygiene poverty can clean their children’s clothes free of charge.  With a target of brining Suds in Schools to 75 schools by the end of the 2023-2024 school year, smol has already installed 50 mini laundrettes alongside committing to providing them with ongoing free washing detergent to help keep their pupils in clean clothes, and are looking to…

New Report Highlights Battle Against Period Poverty

Stuart Mitchell

‘We will not stop fighting until the UK is rid of period poverty once and for all’, a multi-award-winning social enterprise has said after publishing a hard-hitting impact report on its recent work. Hey Girls, recently named Scottish Social Enterprise of the Year, issued the report in a year that saw it surpass astonishing milestones of donating 30 million period products and saving 780 million disposables from going to landfill since 2018. The not-for-profit operates on a buy one, donate one model, matching every purchase with a donation to its…